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Illegal loggers cut off

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has cancelled logging in about 13 million hectares of forest, its government said on Monday, after it reviewed 156 logging contracts. Only 65 of these were found to conform to minimum legal and environmental standards, and were untainted by corruption.

Atmosphere ahoy!

The glow of an alien planet’s atmosphere has been detected from Earth for the first time. The observations of OGLE-TR056b – a “hot Jupiter” – are good news because space-based telescopes used for the task so far, such as NASA’s Spitzer telescope, are set to lose the capability as they age. …